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Aug 3, 2024, 12:45:00 PM8/3/24

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I am trying to upgrade a client from AirWave 7.6.6 (running on top of CentOS 5) to 7.7.4. The server they use for AirWave has a CD-ROM but no DVD-ROM, so I cannot use the disc I burned to install AirWave. I was able to burn the install image to a USB flash drive, but I am having some issues with the CentOS installation - namely, the installer cannot find the kickstart.cfg file. Has anyone installed AirWave like this before and can point me in the right direction. Thanks a lot.

Tried installing both 7.6.6 and 7.6.3 using USB flash drive and still no luck. I have used both uneboot and Universal USB Installer to create the bootable USB and no matter what I do I get the same error about not being able to find kickstart.cfg. Looking at the directory of the USB stick, I can see the kickstart.cfg file, but it seems like CentOS is maybe looking for it in the wrong location.

In the case that you have them back the front (as I did one time), or, your server put the USB at another /sdX entry, you can fix it when you see the error about the kickstart file which it will say should be at hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg , try changing it to hd:sda1:/ks.cfg

- burning the ISO to USB took a few tries and a couple of different sticks. Ultimately it worked on a Patriot 32 GB stick, that I formatted with FAT32 and then did a "Safely Remove Hardware" in windows after finishing the ISO2USB process

- I would recommend making sure that the hardware is supported by Airwave. Especially RAID controllers, etc. A lot of servers ship with cheap software RAID controllers that don't have any Linux support. Also the ONLY RAID support is RAID10, with a minimum of 4 drives.

Hi everyone! I noticed something called "Adobe Flash Player Install Manager" on my Mac today (in the Finder folder). I don't recall ever downloading Flash, and I certainly never installed the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager. The only Adobe app I use or have actively downloaded is Acrobat Reader.

I am trying to delete the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager from my Mac, but I am prompted to enter my Mac password. I am hesitant to enter this info becasue I dont even know what the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager is/ if it is legitimate.

Screenshots are super helpful for those "should I ... " questions. It's most likely the operating system asking for your permission to run the uninstaller. You don't want random software to be able to just modify the system without a speed bump. The uninstaller will need elevated permissions to remove Flash Player, so MacOS is going to give you a prompt as part of that process.

Original poster here: I should mention that I looked through my apps and don't even see "Adobe Flash Player" installed. Just Adobe Acrobat. Thus, I'm not sure where the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager came from if I don't have Adobe Flash.

"Adobe Flash Player Install Manager" is saved to the /Applications/Utitilies directory after installing Flash Player. Since Flash Player is a browser plugin, not an app, it's not saved in /Applications directory. Instead it's saved at /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

If you have Flash Player plugin installed and delete Adobe Flash Player Install Manager.app you'll orphan the plugin. If you want to get rid of Adobe Flash Player Install Manager.app, double-click the app to launch the Flash Player uinstaller. Adobe Flash Player Install Manager.app deletes itself after Flash Player has been uninstalled.

Hello! I followed these directions and uninstalled Adobe Fash. It is no longer listed on my computer (it was before) so I believe I did it correctly. However, the "Adobe Flash Player Install Manager" is still appearing on my tool bar. It has not asked me to do anything, but I would like to remove this app as well. Do you have intructions to do so?

Even though I have the latest Adobe Flash player 11.2 for Linux in Firefox - ref: Flash player security doubts - a particular online flash game still requests that I update to the latest flash player.

To install the latest version of flash player search the Dash (in Ubuntu releases before 17.10) or the Show Applications dashboard (in Ubuntu 17.10 or later) for Software & Updates and open the Software & Updates window. Click the Other Software tab in the Software & Updates window, and put a check mark in the checkbox to the left of where it says: Canonical Partners.

Flash plugin for Linux provided by Adobe stopped at version 11.2. For Chrome/Chromium users there is Pepper Flash plugin, but it's not supported by Firefox/Iceweasel/other browsers. In Ubuntu 16.04 and later browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash from the default Ubuntu repositories allows one to use the Pepper Flash plugin from Chrome in Firefox and any other web browser supporting NPAPI plugins. It works better than adobe-flashplugin in Firefox.

The first is to run the Windows version through Wine, a software emulation layer designed to make Windows software work on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems. You'll need a Windows web browser (such as the Windows version of Firefox), with the Windows version of Flash Player.

Or, you could install Google Chrome, as it always has a recent version of Flash, even on Ubuntu. If you choose Chrome, you won't need Wine. This may no longer be an option. See update #3.

Update: I now know of a third way to do this: Pipelight! Pipelight was originally a browser plugin meant to use a fork of WINE to run Microsoft Silverlight. However, at some point, the developers decided to add support for Flash as well. See Here for instructions on how to install Pipelight, and enable Flash Player.

However, this method isn't perfect; if you find that your browser won't respond to your mouse, you may either switch workspaces (using you desktop's keyboard shortcuts), or switch windows (again keyboard shortcuts). Either way, when you switch back, you should be able to click again. Please note, I've only tested this with Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop (which is forked from Gnome), and can't guarantee this will work on other desktops. If all else fails, you can switch to tty, and kill pipelight using pkill pluginloader.exe.

Also, you might want to run sudo pipelight-plugin --update from time to time, so that Pipelight will know to install an updated version of flash player. This both prevents Pipelight from trying to download plugins from dead links, and ensures said plugins stay up-to-date. Or, you can create a cron file to run the command automatically. To do this, run sudo bash -c 'echo -e \#\!"/bin/bash\n\npipelight-plugin --update" > /etc/cron.weekly/pipelight-update; chmod a+x /etc/cron.weekly/pipelight-update' This will allow your Pipelight's list of plugins to be updated weekly, although the actuall plugins won't be updated untill you start your NPAPI-based browser.

Update 2: I found another plugin which uses Pepper (Google Chrome) Flash Player inside other browsers (such as firefox). This plugin, known as freshplayerplugin, is a native version of Flash, so no WINE is required. Please note: although I haven't tried this method, Pepper Flash is known to have problems with DRM-Protected videos, such as those found on Amazon Prime. If you watch DRM-protected videos with Flash Player, you might want to use Pipelight.

The above link will tell you how install FreshPlayerPlugin by cloning a git repository and compiling the code yourself. Or, you can install the pepflashplugin-installer package from the skunk/pepper-flash ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer. See the bottom of THIS page for instructions on how to enable Chromium to use pepperflash. Warning: this depends on Google Chrome support. Please see update #3.

Update 3: Google has dropped Chrome support for all 32-bit GNU/Linux systems. If you have a 64-bit system, you can use Chrome as usual. Otherwise, you will have to either run an old version of Chrome (good luck finding one. Also, do be warned that old browsers are not secure), switch to a 64-bit system, or attempt to run the Windows version through WINE. Because 32-bit systems are no longer supported, you can no longer use the method described in update #2 on 32-bit systems.

Update 4: Pipelight has been discontinued by the author. You can no longer install Flash Player with it. However, Adobe has decided to bump the GNU/Linux version of Flash player to the latest versions, so I guess you don't need pipelight or freshplayerplugin. in fact, that kind of makes this entire answer obsolete.

Save the tarball into the /tmp folder with the name flash.tar.gz. If your browser automatically downloads the tarball, thus making it impossible for you to rename the tarball before the download starts, wait for the download to end, then go to the folder where the tarball's been put, rename the tarball to flash.tar.gz and then move it to /tmp.

You can now run your Mozilla/Gecko browser (Firefox, Iceweasel or SeaMonkey) and then access the URL about:plugins in order to check if your browser has detected the flash plugin located at /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so (it should be also visible by accessing about:addons and then the Plugins section). If you see something like Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0, then go to in order to check if the flash applet detects your NPAPI flash install and tells you which version you're currently using.